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It’s a pity that the people who write browsers don’t set the default home page to something useful. This is how you change the default homepage from Apple to one of your choosing in Safari for Windows.

Click on Edit then choose Preferences

Here you can change the default homepage from Apple’s default. Just clear out the address in the Home page box.

If you want to set the current page you are viewing as your default homepage click on the button Set to Current Page. You will get a confirmation screen. Click the Change Home Page button.

I have tried to recreate the issue your having with Safari and I am not able to. I guess I would check to make sure you have the latest version which is 3.0.1 (522.12.2)

You can check your version by clicking on Help and selecting “about Safari”

**Also! Make sure your not clicking the button below where your enter your homepage! That will only set your homepage to whatever site your on. You just type in the page you want then exit out of the window.

Here’s the weird thing — Safari on my Windows XP has worked super fine for 3+ months…. and now all of a sudden in the last 24h, it has the bug as described in this thread — can’t save homepages, and other annoying things (like displaying the bookmarks toolbar) resets to off everytime I close/open.

I got mine to stick once, and I even still have 2.0.4. Sadly, I don’t know how I did it. After about six months, it went back to Apple’s homepage again and I have not been able to keep the changes again.

Hmm, I am suddenly getting similar problems using Safari 3.0.4 on a MacBook running OS10.4.11, except that my homepage APPEARS to be saved correcly, but the computer just can’t find it & heads off to kolmin.com or click2find.com on the net and does a search. Even after closing such windows, the browser repeats the searches periodically.

when I hit edit, there’s no preference selection…what I want to do is get my old dell start page back. It is now full of all sorts of things—which I try to x off but the next time I try the start page again, all of these things I don’t want are there

OK ,
1. Open safari on a page you want to be the startup page
2. On the top right beside the address are two icons, a folder down page and a round “star”…
3. Click on that and go down to preferences
4.Click on set to current page…… it will ask if you really want to do that.
Yep